2025 EMCC Baseball News
East Mississippi Community College head baseball coach Brett Kimbrel has announced the completion of the Lions’ baseball coaching staff. Returning assistant coaches Dylan Earnest and Wesley Sides have moved into elevated roles, while newcomer Chase Honeycutt joins EMCC’s baseball coaching staff as a first-year assistant.
Former East Mississippi Community College all-conference standouts Ty Murphy and Braxton Goff have been named to the 2024-25 Academic All-America® Men’s At-Large First Team for the College Division. As selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC), the announcement was made Wednesday.
East Mississippi Community College sophomore outfielder Ty Murphy has been named to the 2025 All-MACCC Baseball Second Team, as announced Wednesday by the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference (MACCC).
East Mississippi Community College’s injury-plagued 2025 baseball season came to a close with a pair of home setbacks (15-4 & 7-2) to Holmes during Tuesday’s regular-season finale played at Gerald Poole Field on the Scooba campus.
East Mississippi Community College’s run of three consecutive baseball postseason playoff appearances came to an end by dropping 10-4 and 4-3 decisions at Southwest Mississippi during Saturday’s MACCC doubleheader played in Summit.
The Lions of East Mississippi Community College recorded their second conference doubleheader sweep of the baseball season with 9-2 and 8-2 road victories over Mississippi Delta during Wednesday’s MACCC action played in Moorhead.
East Mississippi Community College’s Lions fell in home baseball doubleheader action to nationally second-ranked Pearl River, 17-5 and 10-6, during Friday’s MACCC play contested at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field.
East Mississippi Community College earned a fifth baseball doubleheader split in conference play this season with a 6-2 opening-game victory over Northwest Mississippi during Tuesday’s MACCC action played at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field. The visiting Rangers evened the twin bill with a 5-2 nightcap win.
In a pair of extra-inning contests, the visiting Lions of East Mississippi Community College earned their fourth conference doubleheader split of the baseball season with a 12-9 come-from-behind win in 11 innings over Itawamba during Wednesday’s MACCC action played at ICC’s Roy Cresap Field. The Indians turned the tables on EMCC in the nightcap by claiming a 4-3 comeback victory in walk-off fashion. The Lions battled from behind during the entire scheduled nine-inning opening game after trailing 6-1 at the end of the second inning. Itawamba followed a two-run first frame with four more scores an inning later off EMCC starting pitcher Caidan Bullard.
East Mississippi Community College bounced back from an opening-game setback to earn the team’s third MACCC doubleheader split of the baseball season by claiming a 12-6 home nightcap win over Copiah-Lincoln during Saturday’s conference action played at Gerald Poole Field. EMCC fell 12-4 to the visiting Wolves in the first game.
Complete-game pitching performances by Trace Tingle and Chipper Moore lifted the East Mississippi Community College Lions to their first conference doubleheader sweep of the baseball season with 9-1 and 11-1 home wins over Coahoma during Wednesday’s MACCC action played at Gerald Poole Field.
The Lions of East Mississippi Community College collected a season-high 19 hits and scored multiple runs in all but one inning of the opening game to cruise to a 14-2 run-rule win and earn a home baseball doubleheader split with Hinds during Saturday’s MACCC action played at Gerald Poole Field. The visiting Eagles came back to pull out an 8-7 extra-inning victory over EMCC in the nightcap.
East Mississippi Community College freshman left-hander Trace Tingle has been named the MACCC Baseball Pitcher of the Week for his two-hit complete game in the Lions’ 4-1 nightcap win over then-No. 1 East Central a week ago in Scooba.
Trace Tingle’s two-hitter and Josh King’s bases-clearing single lifted East Mississippi Community College to a thrilling 4-1 comeback nightcap win over top-ranked East Central during Wednesday’s MACCC season-opening baseball action. The visiting Warriors hung on for a 4-3 victory over the Lions in the day’s first game of the conference doubleheader played at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field.
East Mississippi Community College closed out non-conference play with a road split during Thursday’s round-robin baseball action played at Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Jim Miles Field. The EMCC Lions shut out NAIA member Freed-Hardeman University’s JV team 4-0 before falling to the host NWCC Rangers by the same score in the nightcap.
East Mississippi Community College’s baseball team successfully capped off a demanding home week against preseason-ranked MACCC competition by sweeping 12th-ranked Jones College, 16-11 and 3-1, during Friday’s non-conference action played at EMCC’s Gerald Poole Field.
